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Many things about Discord are event-driven, and user clients are evidently
no exception.
Visual updates seem to take place immediately when something changes
at the server, be it a new message in a channel [even ones you're not
currently looking at, unless they're muted], role updates, channel status
or visibility, and even where channels are positioned.
So I was sitting there looking at something unrelated, and a small motion
cue along the left edge caught my eye -- I realized that someone was moving
the channels around, which you can do if you hold a role with the "manage
channels" permission.
It turned out that Raven was trying to establish which channels should be
visible to the incoming folks before getting "Arisian"-ed, because they'd
very likely need some help getting set up and it sort of made sense to
have an obvious "helpdesk" area findable right up front.
The slightly confusing aspect is that some of the channels had to be moved
away from the "member services" category, meaning that they get an
independent set of permissions, and it's a little confusing to manage that
and keep it correctly minimalist.
So we had a bit of banter about sensible layouts -- I wasn't objecting or
anything, I just wanted for us to come up with something agreeably workable
to best serve the attendance, and I'd go back and sanity-check all the
permissions crap afterward since I now understood the order of precedence.
The Youtube window peeking out from behind was from me going through various
tutorial videos about Discord, trying to help find some decently
instructive ones that Raven could point our attendees to as additional
learning material.
We eventually had a "Discord 101" channel as a read-only reference with a
handful of somewhat-vetted useful links in it.
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